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Re: ln -s exe magic (coreutils 6.7-2)
On Jan 23 20:36, Christopher Layne wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 06:07:17PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > /usr/sbin: ls -l sendmail*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 13 Jan 23 17:40 sendmail -> /usr/bin/exim*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 p-humblet sw 19 Jan 23 17:29 sendmail.exe -> /usr/sbin/ssmtp.exe*
> >
> > so that the commands "sendmail" and "sendmail.exe" produce different results,
> > cron keeps using exim and if exim is uninstalled then cron misbehaves.
> >
> > My suggestion is that by default ln -s should not do any magic. If some magic is
> > desired, users can define an alias or shell function that adds --enable-exe-magic
> >
> > Pierre
>
> Probably just an oversight (in regards to symlinks) in the code handling .exe
> vs extentionless executables. It's there to allow both options for an executable to
> be named. I'm sure Corinna or Christopher will know what the deal is.
This looks rather like a problem with the exe magic in coreutils. FWIW,
I never liked the idea to create "foo.exe.lnk" symlinks. They only slow
down the symlink processing in Cygwin.
Corinna
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